Re: SOI QUESTIONS: 2.3 Authentication styles

[Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>]

At 8:44 PM -0700 6/20/02, Chinna N.R. Pellacuru wrote:
>Not an inefficiency if you don't run a firewall in your implementation,
>and your standard of security is only what is provided by a 'static packet
>filter'. We call that ACL functionality, not even a firewall
>functionality.
>
>     chinna
>

The term "ACL" is well understood in the information security 
literature for over 30 years. It is quaint that Cisco (I assume the 
"we" above) has adopted that term for a particilaur functionality in 
their products, but Cisco's effective monopoly status in the router 
product arena does not confer and special status on the neologistic 
use of the term.

Steve